Russell and Ryan team up in ‘The Nice Guys’

What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

“The Nice Guys” is a throwback to action comedies of the 1970s with tough guy Russell Crowe and soused private detective Ryan Gosling teaming up to find a kidnapped girl. Rated R. Also on DVD and Blu-ray.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are the thrillers “Blood Father,” with Mel Gibson (R), “The Sea of Trees,” with Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts (PG-13), and the comedy “The Intervention,” with Melanie Lynskey (R).

Netflix

The debut seasons of the espionage series “Quantico,” starring Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra as an FBI recruit, and the provocative “American Crime,” starring Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton and Regina King, are new to Netflix.

Amazon Prime Video

Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey are “Elvis & Nixon” (2016) in the fictional story of a real-life meeting (R).

Also new: the American Indie revenge drama “Blue Ruin” (2013) (R) and the end of the world in “Melancholia” (2011), with Kirsten Dunst (R).

Pilot Season is back. View and vote on the pilot episodes of three new comedies: “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” with Jean-Claude Van Damme, “I Love Dick,” with Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon, and the superhero spoof “The Tick.”

Kid stuff: In “The Kicks: Season 1,” a soccer-playing schoolgirl finds her place with a new school and a new team.